FINALLY! Now hopefully we can avoid a repeat of the dreaded Pine Valley curse. I've actually done a bit of work on a Plains level based on the object heights combined with the plains area in IT, but it's part of the full island map I was working on. I can send it to you if you want to check it out.

Thanks, and thank you but I'd be more interested in simply seeing screenshots from it. Can't wait until I reach the stage of adding dinosaurs and puzzles. To boldy mod where no Trespasser has trespassed before...

Oooookay, this took a couple weeks of on-and-off attention but it's finally finished... PL release A: all Max-scene objects + base terrain, all known textures, substitute textures, and of course the sky and player. A philosophy of minimum modification has been applied to this release. Basically the idea is to have a playable version of the Max scene by creating a terrain file with elevations and details based on object locations. Knock yourself out:

Some notes - due to the nature of exporting from Max and creating instanced versions of parent instances, there will be several visual oddities in TresEd, but it seems Trespasser will generate an instanced "clone" of that which is supposed to be the parent, even though the -## models are their own parent instances as seen in TresEd. Short version - TresEd it looks a tad odd, works perfectly ingame.

Next hurtle is going to be linking the level to Tatu's town-only version of IT and to PV, and making all manner of ingame additions from dinosaurs to puzzles.. In the meantime, enjoy the first playable version of PL.

From all I could tell, the terrain for the Max scene must have paid little-to-no attention to whatever the other levels had going on, assuming they were somehow similar to what the later builds have. This version of PL is thus strictly a recreation of what the Max scene might have been like. In my next iteration I plan to merge it with IT terrain and objects, as well as various additions based on the walkthrough.

Some notes - due to the nature of exporting from Max and creating instanced versions of parent instances, there will be several visual oddities in TresEd, but it seems Trespasser will generate an instanced "clone" of that which is supposed to be the parent, even though the -## models are their own parent instances as seen in TresEd. Short version - TresEd it looks a tad odd, works perfectly ingame.

This is actually an "issue" with the .TPM exporter and not specifically 3ds Max. The .TPM Exporter reads all objects as its own mesh. The good thing about this tho is that by exporting all as their own mesh, this keeps their original scale.

_________________"...there used to be more benches, but InGen's workers removed them during the evacuation in the name of framerate."

"The main laboratory and administrative buildings. This is where we made our work, where the real magic trick happen. When they are in need of height fixing, they'll come here." - Hammond

I took a look at the terrain. You said to me you used my Town terrain as a base. That is the reason why it is that height. I think that when you flatter it out it became higher. I also guess machf means that the objects are 50 higher than in the Max file?

Until you start adding the Town terrain, I will not really have any point of reference on how much to change it. Even if I lower it by 50, the Town objects will probably float or be underground anyway. If you add some parts of the Town terrain I can lower it to fit the objects based in those areas.

_________________"...there used to be more benches, but InGen's workers removed them during the evacuation in the name of framerate."

"The main laboratory and administrative buildings. This is where we made our work, where the real magic trick happen. When they are in need of height fixing, they'll come here." - Hammond

Not really. The simplest fix would be to select everything in TresEd and lower it by 50m. Haven't checked if $objects would have been moved twice, though... so reimporting everything from the MAX file may be simpler.

EDIT: checked, $objects are in their proper positions, so no worries there. I can send you the files with everything lowered back 50m.

If you want level files with the PL objects imported at their original heights and based on the IT files (with the stuff from IT still there), just let me know...

Alright, my objective at this point is to lower everything by 50m, then hopefully Tatu can send me a version of the terrain (using maxscripts etc.) which is also 50m lower, to match the objs. This is sort of a minimum objective for creating a basic, unmodified version of PL. After that point, various mods might take place in further modding of PL.

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